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Chp25: & our strong female lead is captured in 40 seconds when the MML back is turned 🙄 maybe if Lay started training at 6 she would be a better fighter. Seems she can only win when she needs to prove a point to Thane not when she needs to protect herself

Cho25: why do you meed to “assure” Thane that Ren’s kiss was unexpected? And also sounds like Novak was just a childhood crush not a lost boyfriend. And god Lay Thane killed his bff and father 2 months ago but you can’t share Novak’s from 2 years ago i can already tell its a unintentionally your fault (maybe learn to use your magic & prevent it from happening again).

Chp24: lay “lost” the fight because she dropped the sword but she won because she had the better blow. And now all the men accept her as one of them 🙄 and Thane has to end on a “she’s mine” to his men

Chp24: so lay needs an award to do something she said she was fully capable of last chapter like a child 🙄

Chp24: so thane asks her to fight one of his soldiers to 1. Prove she’s a good fighter as any of his soldiers 2. Train, because she has not done this once since the book started. And her first reaction is kind of confusion and then like backing down and apprehension because she’s like I know, I’m the strongest in my village, but I never fought else before. Last chp, she said she was as good as any of them

Chp24: OMG is this plot progression! So all Lay had to do was say sorry to Thane for us to unlock her bg, open dialogue with Piper, get Tif out of her bedroom and head into battle(still untrained in magic) to observe with talon who is there out of spite

Chp23: private dance. Lay says sorry. Says she wants to fight b/c she is as good as any solider even though she privately admits she has never fought in battle, and then Thane says she can’t go because he can’t count on her to fight well and to obey him. Then they do the big festival dance and right on queue when all the sappy scenes are over the pale ones attack, so nice in the wait until our leads bond

Chp23: Thane does the whole “don’t tough my mate” thing and thats fine but then Lay just runs to him to hold onto him like some 80’s male fantasy book cover because she was so incapable of saving herself from a mob -and i’m wondering why her instincts to save herself are so bad when she has been training her who life to be a fighter and pride to not seem like she wants to be Thanes mate has gone

Chp22: its the festival she only is on good terms with Thanes boys. Talon and Queen just out her identity before a whole mob so they will swarm her as if Lay isn’t their greatest weapon against the pale ones and keeping her safe isn’t a priority for them as regents.

Chp22: festival is here. Lay is upset Thane didn’t pick her up because he is too busy being a king at the festival.